Is in this story<\/a>.\u00a0It wasn\u2019t Kim Davis. \u00a0Kim Davis initially created a bit of a collar tugging moment for the progressive allies in the media. \u00a0After all, we are the land of the free and home of the brave. \u00a0Homosexual rights was born in the old 60s question of \u2018who\u2019s to say what\u2019s normal?\u2019. \u00a0It became a beacon for the ultimate fight for rights and equality. \u00a0It was swept forward by liberalism\u2019s promise of a nation of ultimate freedoms where everyone could do or say what they wanted and be respected and embraced for the trouble. \u00a0After all, wasn\u2019t morality just formulated opinions? <\/p>\nAnd now you had gay rights activists shouting that the bigot ought to be thrown into jail where she belonged. \u00a0There she was, mug shot, prison number, all because she didn\u2019t conform to this movement of unbridled freedom and equality. \u00a0In the words of Disney\u2019s immortal Goofy: Sumthun\u2019 wrong here!<\/p>\n
Finally there became enough legal mumbo-jumbo and drawn out debates that the question became was there really a legal basis for her imprisonment or not. \u00a0Of course there was. \u00a0The law now reflected the values of the post-Christian secular left, and like any society in history, this movement has every intention of mandating conformity to its values and imposing and legislating its morality onto the masses. \u00a0Based on the laws of any land at divers times, the strangest things can send you to jail. \u00a0And strange it was. \u00a0After all, if you went back even 20 years, do you think people would have imagined that it would come to a person going to jail because they did not support gay marriage?<\/p>\n
So the name Kim Davis was quite the pickle for a while, and enough to give most thinking people pause. \u00a0The names of Aaron and Melissa Klein, however, are not well known. \u00a0Their case is. \u00a0Or at least should be. \u00a0A bakery that refused to provide services for a lesbian marriage celebration. \u00a0Of course those lesbians could have found any one of a hundred bakeries in Oregon that would have drooled at the chance to cater the event. \u00a0But that wasn\u2019t the point.<\/p>\n
The point, as is the point with most of the progressive secular juggernaut, is submission. \u00a0Oppressing diverse views and demanding conformity and obedience. \u00a0So the movement, aided by the media and its pals in the legal universe, swooped in and won a victory against Christianity and non-progressive morality, not to mention freedom and liberty for the thinking person. <\/p>\n
The irony is that traditionally, Americans never defined freedom as anyone being able to think or do whatever they wanted. \u00a0Americans understood freedom as being set beside a set of morals and values that all should be expected to follow. \u00a0The progressives, the liberals, did. \u00a0It was that freedom that liberal view of freedom that was the canvas under which the gay rights movement gathered its forces. \u00a0And yet, where is that promise now? \u00a0The same place most such lofty and unrealistic and, quite frankly, laughable promises end up once those making them get the power they crave.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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